The Solution to Stereotypes in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

place your problems on others for your own sake? The people in Maycomb, Alabama often find themselves placing their troubles on one man so that they can all live with the stereotypes they’ve created. They could fix these problems, but would rather let others make the tough decisions for them. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird ,Harper Lee shows how people would rather place all of their troubles on one person or avoid them rather than deal with them themselves. Atticus is courageous and heroic for taking

spots. A blind spot can be understood as when someone does not understand the full picture and believes rumors or other people without knowing the full story. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Atticus says that “you never really understand a person until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them” and that was the solution to blindspots. Although it is true that sometimes people are exactly who they seemed to be, most of the time people can not judge someone without seeing the whole picture

issues, and if they do not see anything different they will remain blind to the issue. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is set in a small county, Maycomb, during the Great Depression. At this time there were many injustices within societies, especially those in the south. Harper Lee uses prominent social issues to show how one small thing can change a person’s point of view. Racial injustice is shown when Lee brings attention to the fact that even the children don’t understand why they have to differentiate

in order to see the world clearly. Abandon the wrongs that have plagued society and strive instead for peace and equality. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, took place during the Civil Rights Movement In the 1930’s. At the time, a lot of racism and prejudice was integrated into life as blacks became segregated from whites. Various stereotypes were formed, such as saying that blacks were dangerous, liars, and perverts, lusting for white women. In addition, they had entirely separate

The novels To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie are alike in many ways due to their three themes. Their societal problems have a major impact on how they act and how they choose to see things. The unjust treatment and social problems the main characters in To Kill A Mockingbird and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian have to conquer, enforces the similar themes as it results in the unfair treatments of education, poverty

Importance of the Trial in To Kill a Mockingbird      The trial of Tom Robinson is central to our understanding of racial and social prejudice in Maycomb. Harper Lee uses Tom Robinson's 'crime' to bring tensions in the town to a head and the author uses the trial as a way of making the ideas behind such tensions explicit for the reader.   The two people involved in the so-called crime, Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell, are at the very bottom of Maycomb society. Tom is black and

Tomi Tunrarebi, an alumni of Monte Vista High School, wrote a narrative essay all about her experiences of stereotypes. She writes, “Lexi and I go out to eat out in Walnut Creek...I’m immediately met with harsh eyes of an old white lady...I can see the word clearly in her eyes: nigger” (Tunrarebi 2). This further adds on to the problem of society today: some people

When students read and write about literature, it helps them deal with stress. When reading, it is common to feel immersed in the text. This is particularly common in fiction. When someone picks up a book and dives into that universe, stress is melted away because they are now free of their responsibilities. In a 2009 study, 166 participants were split randomly into 2 groups. One group was told that what they were reading was fictional, while the other was told it wasn’t. Before they began the reading

Censorship in Schools There has recently been a renewed interest and passion in the issue of censorship. In the realm of the censorship of books in schools alone, several hundred cases have surfaced each year for nearly the past decade. Controversies over which books to include in the high school English curriculum present a clash of values between teachers, school systems, and parents over what is appropriate for and meaningful to students. It is important to strike a balance between English